There and Back Again: The BOSH Windows Story

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Moved Windows deployment from fragile MSI installers to porting the BOSH agent to Windows, replacing manual VM provisioning that sometimes takes up to six months and targeting the ~50% of enterprise .NET developers previously missing. Built a Windows agent in Go, use WinSW service wrapper for process lifecycle, publish Windows stemcells on bosh.io and an opsfile to opt into Windows cells. Work runs but lacks stop scripts, persistent disks and BOSH SSH yet; packaging required an exitor.ps1 workaround and those features are in progress.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:44Windows on Cloud Foundry
3. 1:54The MSI Workflow
4. 5:41Pperator Experience, contd.
5. 7:43Limitations of this approach
6. 10:35The Fellowship of BOSH
7. 11:13Porting the BOSH Agent to Windows
8. 12:28What's different about BOSH Agent for Windows
9. 15:32Windows BOSH Jobs
10. 19:16Other BOSH Windows Limitations
11. 19:50What's next for BOSH Windows?

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